Wichert Akkerman writes: > [debian-devel] exists to discuss any technical issues surounding > debian. And that can be anything ranging from archive management to > development strategies to implementing acceptable defaults.
I agree. I just see a lot of supposedly technical discussions lately that devolve into a waste of time. I guess it's not my loss if other people do that, but I *like* Debian and I'd rather not hear people cracking jokes about how we can never get a release out in a timely manner because we're too busy flaming eachother. The thread in question, about PATH and /sbin, is not extremely complicated as far as the technical issues go. We know *how* to implement whatever default path we want; the issue is really deciding *what* to implement (not to mention deciding whether or not "defaults" should be agonized over at all (you can probably guess where I stand there)). I short, i'm probably splitting hairs, but I think this thread would be more appropriate for -project. Along with whatever the next big debate happens to be. If this was a rare occurence, I probably wouldn't have been fed up enough to write my previous post. (As a side issue, there is a bit of a problem of "I'm going to post to -devel because everyone reads that and not enough people read -(project|boot|legal|gtk-gnome|etc)." But that's a whole other rant.) > If a thread doesn't interest you, don't read it. I guess I wasn't really clear on that; I put -devel in a separate folder, and i didn't read the thread. I'm not complaining about me having to expend effort; it just happens that these sort of threads have been increasing lately. OTOH, i've really only been following the list for a year or so, so what do i know. *shrug* -- Decklin Written with Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org/